Qigong Exercises: Tree Posture Tips

Video Transcript

"Look at your hands. The hands are out in front of you, fingers evenly spread, and learn to relax the shoulders in this posture now. Once again eyes can be open or eyes can be closed. If you stand in this posture, what you're trying to do is you're trying to learn to relax in this posture, try not to be tense, but relax. Stand in the posture, relax in the posture, and simply breathe in and out. Breathe into the dan tian, breathe out. Breathe into the dan tian and breathe out. While you're doing your breathing exercise, really feel that you are a tree standing with the feet connected to the earth, the hands are tree branches and that you feel powerful, Okay? And very, very comfortable. Make sure that you're not tense, try to stay relaxed. This exercise is something that you can build upon. When you first start this exercise you may be able to only hold the posture for a few minutes before your shoulders start to get tired. The idea is to strengthen us. So we want to strengthen the shoulders, strengthen the arms, and strengthen the body. Start off with just a few minutes, maybe one minute, maybe two minutes. When you work your way up, you should be able to work your way up to ten, eleven, twelve minutes. Even more if you wish, in standing in this posture, standing like a tree. Okay? So, I'm going to stand, and I'm going to breather, in and out, feeling my feet, feeling my arms. When your arms get tired and you wish to finish this, go ahead and exhale and drop the hands down by your side and go back into the qu qi posture. Okay? So, once again, let's go from the qu qi posture. Qu qi posture, hands rise up, stand in the posture of standing like a tree for a couple of minutes. Work on relaxing the shoulders and not keeping them tense. After you've gotten to a point where your shoulders are hurting and you wish to rest again, exhale, and drop the hands back down into the qu qi."